Article Archive for September 2009
From Ecorazzi:
When the documentary The Cove was released in late summer to a limited amount of theaters in the US, expectations of how the film might impact the start of the Japanese dolphin hunt were …
In an interview with The Gothamist, celebrity chef Wolfgang Puck spoke out against veal:
… in most places when you look at the way they treat the animals, you’re going to become a vegetarian anyway. If …
Last year it was called the Tokyo Vegetarian Festival, this year it’s the Tokyo Veggie Food Festa. Unless you go by their website URL, in which case it’s the Tokyo Vegefest. Hell, if Coca-Cola can …
Red Bull contains taurine, so named because it was first found in bulls’ bile. And it’s that name, and original source, that leads people to claim that Red Bull isn’t suitable for veggies. The company’s …
Sense, the Cantonese restaurant at the Mandarin Oriental Tokyo, specialises in Peking duck and shark’s fin. The chef will carve the crispy duck at your table, and I’m told it’s superlative. I understand he also …
There’s a trend recently in the British press to send carnivores to review vegetarian restaurants or turn veggie for a week, and most of the pieces are fairly cookie-cutter stuff about missing meat. Here’s one …
Via The Japan Times, a lesson in table manners:
I’m always looking for easy ways to eat more healthily without having to adjust my dietary habits in any way. Thanks to Alishan I’ve found a new one. Fry any old thing you like, or …
Advice on iron in a vegan diet from Examiner.com. It doesn’t read like a particularly neutral point of view, but it has some decent advice and an iron-content chart:
The type of iron in plant foods …


